Your local arborist
North Narrabeen is our home — we know every street
The Living Canopy is based right here in North Narrabeen. When you call us, you're not speaking to a call centre or a booking agent — you're speaking directly to Alex Price, the qualified arborist who will turn up, assess your trees and carry out the work. We know Ocean Street, Lake Park Road, the streets running back from Pittwater Road and the properties stretching down toward the Narrabeen Lagoon trail. We have worked on this peninsula for over a decade.
North Narrabeen sits at the northern tip of Narrabeen Lagoon, where the sandstone ridges drop down to one of Sydney's most beautiful stretches of still water. The lagoon environment shapes the tree species you'll find here more than almost anywhere else on the Northern Beaches. Properties backing onto the lagoon or its foreshore often have waterlogged or seasonally wet soil profiles, and the species that thrive in those conditions — particularly Melaleuca quinquenervia (Broad-leaved Paperbark) — are well established across the suburb. These paperbarks can grow into impressive specimens but they also self-seed prolifically, and many homeowners find them encroaching on structures and driveways. We understand how to manage them responsibly and when removal is genuinely warranted.
On the higher, better-drained sandstone soils away from the lagoon edge, the tree palette changes. Angophora costata (Sydney Red Gum) is a dominant species on established blocks, its smooth orange-pink trunk unmistakable. Banksias — particularly Banksia integrifolia and Banksia serrata — are common in the bushland fringe and on larger properties near Bilarong Reserve. Eucalyptus saligna (Sydney Blue Gum) can reach significant size on deeper soils and occasionally poses challenges when it outgrows its position near structures. We carry out proper hazard assessments for all of these species, working to retain trees wherever it is safe and practical to do so.
Living and working locally also means we respond fast when storms hit. East coast lows are a fact of life on the Northern Beaches, and North Narrabeen — open to the ocean and adjacent to the lagoon — can take a battering. We offer same-day emergency response for storm-damaged trees, fallen limbs and hazardous situations. Our number is answered directly, day or night, in an emergency.
